Kohut believes that the person's personality:
a. cannot be changed much after age five
b. is still subject to considerable changes after age five
c. is always fixated at the oral stage and can not be changed after age two
d. can only be changed through interactions with the parents
Question 2The process whereby a person learns new, more realistic ways of thinking, feeling, and behaving as a consequence of interactions with empathic parents is called:
a. classical internalization
b. instinctual internalization
c. transference internalization
d. transmuting internalization
Question 3When the mother reflects, echoes, approves, and confirms her child's self-representation, it is called:
a. mirroring
b. transmuting internalization
c. optimal frustration
d. optimal failure
Question 4Another name for the therapeutic tool of empathy is:
a. primary and immediate introspection
b. vicarious introspection
c. concrete observation
d. personal and empirical observation
Question 5Kohut calls the dreams that are not disguised attempts at wish fulfillment, but rather straightforward depictions of the current state of the self:
a. transmuting dreams
b. latent dreams
c. psychopathological dreams
d. self-state dreams
Question 6Children's initial view of their parents as perfect is called the:
a. grandiose self imago
b. fragmenting imago
c. idealized parent imago
d. empathy imago
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